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SYMB: Intersectional Symposium Many-Body Physics of Model Systems and Real Materials

SYMB 1: Many-Body Physics of Model Systems and Real Materials

SYMB 1.3: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 15:30–16:00, HSZ 01

Exploring the physics of disorder with Bose-Einstein condensates — •Giovanni Modugno — LENS, University of Florence, Via Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

The combination of disorder and nonlinearities determines the transport properties of many physical systems, including normal conductors and superconductors, biological systems, or light in disordered nonlinear media. A full understanding of the interplay of disorder and nonlinearities is still missing, due to the lack of complete control over experimental parameters in most systems.

I will describe how we are employing Bose-Einstein condensates with tunable interactions in combination with optical potentials to address some of the open questions, related for example to the transport properties and to the transition from insulating to superfluid phases in lattice systems.